The Mesopotamian view can be seen in the myth of Etana. In the city of Kish, there was a poplar tree in which an eagle had made its nest in the branches, and a snake had made a home in the roots.

Thankfully, our ancestors in Mesopotamia broke ... rituals, and religious texts. Aren’t cave paintings much older written records? The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the ...